Songwriter sues Huckabee over use of 'Eye of the Tiger' at campaign event
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com
The campaign organization for Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is facing a copyright infringement suit over music played at a rally. The event featured both Huckabee and Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky clerk once jailed for refusing to permit same-sex marriages.
Filed Wednesday in federal court in Illinois, the suit by guitarist Frank Sullivan, a founding member of Survivor, says “Eye of the Tiger,” a song he co-wrote, was performed without authorization at an event celebrating Davis’ release from jail, Reuters reports.
The suit, which names Huckabee for President as a defendant, seeks a court order banning further performances and damages for alleged willful copyright infringement.
Familiar to many from the soundtrack of Rocky III, the song was also the subject of a similar lawsuit in 2012 by Sullivan against Newt Gingrich. It was settled out of court.
